Adidas has cut ties with Kanye West following the rapper and designer's repeated antisemitic comments. As The New York Times reported, this severance is ending "what may have been the most significant corporate fashion partnership" of West's career and comes after a series of disturbing public outbursts and statements from West.
On social media, West's comments included a Twitter post alleging that he would soon support "death con 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE," which later caused Twitter and Instagram to restrict his account. This fall at Paris Fashion Week, West wore a shirt that read "White Lives Matter," a slogan of white supremacists, which is hate speech as identified by the Anti-Defamation League.
